From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 16 05:14:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDF3E16A4CE for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 05:14:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from darkness.comp.waw.pl (darkness.comp.waw.pl [195.117.238.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A1D143D39 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 05:14:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pjd@darkness.comp.waw.pl) Received: by darkness.comp.waw.pl (Postfix, from userid 1009) id 4BFDDACAE3; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:14:16 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:14:16 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek To: Julien Gabel Message-ID: <20040416121416.GG24376@darkness.comp.waw.pl> References: <50267.192.168.0.105.1082054761.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> <5236.1082057026@critter.freebsd.dk> <49481.192.168.0.105.1082110471.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> <20040416113702.GF24376@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <50219.192.168.0.105.1082116474.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="bygAmIonOAIqBxQB" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <50219.192.168.0.105.1082116474.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i X-PGP-Key-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/pjd.asc X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 i386 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't *write* to a hard disk, problem related to GEOM(4)? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 12:14:35 -0000 --bygAmIonOAIqBxQB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 01:54:34PM +0200, Julien Gabel wrote: +> >>>> /dev/ad10 was previously part of a hardware miror (ar(4) device with +> >>>> a HighPoint HPT374 (channel 2+3) UDMA133 controller), but since it = was +> >>>> broken for an unknown reason, thid drive is no more usable, even +> >>>> alone. For example, I am not be able to create a new slice on it. +>=20 +> >>> Could you try to compile a kernel without the ar(4) driver in it ? +> >>> It may still be latching on to this disk... +>=20 +> >> Since the ar(4) driver is part of ata(4) generic ATA/ATAPI disk +> >> controller driver, I don't think it is possible to do that without +> >> shooting myself on the foot. Any ideas? +>=20 +> > Could you post output from: +> > # sysctl -b kern.geom.confxml +>=20 +> Sure. Because the output is 1128 lines long, the output is attached. It doesn't look like a GEOM problem: r0w0e0 ad10 122942324736 512 16 63 As you can see, this provider is not opened (r0w0e0). Try to set kern.geom.debugflags to 4. It will show you all access requests. --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.FreeBSD.org pjd@FreeBSD.org http://garage.freebsd.pl FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --bygAmIonOAIqBxQB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAf84YForvXbEpPzQRAoTRAJ9R6KRJEjfyO5SebOHW2otqqPbgfQCggpiK 6RTEnCBAGF24G0IUKMqu2kM= =Lgns -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bygAmIonOAIqBxQB--